Priority 1: Remove Specter from Judiciary (Day 3)

11-5-04 | Always Right

[Graybeard58]

The most important issue shouldn't be whether it's Grassley or Kyl.

ANYBODY but Spector. He is the absolutely worst possible chairman for that committe.

[Always Right]

Sorry, i have to stop using MS Word, it always messes up my links

Grassley link

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1270628/posts

petition link

http://www.cpforlife.org/id132

[Huck]

I thought so. Kyl is more solid, if I am not mistaken. Grassley's got quite a bit of rino in him. There's something about those farms states...

[Huck]

Contact Senators Coburn and Inhofe.

Yeah? What should I say/do? I emailed the president yesterday, and frist, and I faxed frist.

[Graybeard58]

No matter who is Chair of the committee, 40 Dems will still block any pro-life nominee

Yes, but if it reaches the full Senate the debate will be much more open to public scrutiny and therefore to public pressure.

[BP2]

Laura Ingram is railing against Specter all day. It seems to be her #1 topic right now!

Good. Don't let this man pick our judges!!!

[Always Right]

Is Grassley reliable? Isn't he a little squishy himself? Yes, he was one of the leaders of the Souter nomination in 1990.

Thanks, i was unaware of Grassley's involvement with Souter. Something that needs resrearch.

[BibChr]

What he said yesterday (his clarification) was, in itself, fine enough.

But just as John Kerry should quite appropriately have been held to account for everything he said and did about Vietname, so Arlen MacSpectre should be held to what he did to Robert Bork.

If we had a half-bright press, this is the question they'd ask: "Given what you said about the President's Constitutional authority, why did you reject Robert Bork, did you do the right thing in doing so, and would you do it again if President Bush sent up someone like Robert Bork?"

Dan
Biblical Christianity web site
Biblical Christianity message board

[Elkiejg]

Don't wave a red bandana in front of the media and the RINOs in Pennsylvania by labeling your petition Pro Life.

Agree 100%. Why focus on one item? What we really want are judges who UPHOLD written law - not make law from the bench.

[ConservativeMan55]

I ask you to please address the judicial issue aggressively. It is crucial. Please do what you can to get Specter OUT of the way on this issue.

Keep it very very short. They are much more likely to read it.


Respectfully,

Such and Such.



http://www.inhofe.senate.gov/contactus.htm

[RAY]

Spector is unacceptable because of his stand on Roe Vs Wade. This issue should have been decided based upon well grounded constitutional grounds.

Also, our founders did not intend for us to legalize the killing of unborn babies. If you want to kill unborn babies, then float a constitutional amendment (and see how far that gets).

[Always Right]

ANYBODY but Spector. He is the absolutely worst possible chairman for that committe.

I agree. I just put it out there for evaluation. Grassley makes sense in that it is the easiest route to the goal of replacing Specter. Kyl makes sense as the much better choice. anybody is better than Specter.

[mrsmith]

Specter won't try to block any nominees, he didn't say he would- in fact he said he wouldn't. He can't anyway if the majority of the committee doesn't want to.

But 40 Dems will block all pro-life judges, just as Specter said.

This is the silliest cause I've seen on FR since the contrail people used to come by.

[WKUHilltopper]

Sen. Sphincter needs to go!

[Redbob]

Wait a minute:
According the NRA's website, Specter is already Chairman of the Veterans Affairs Committee.

If it's true that he cannot hold to Chairmanships, what do we have to worry about?
That he'd resign the VA post?

Sounds to me like getting Grassley to resign his other post would be the best all-around deal.

[ConservativeMan55]

SENATE FRESHMAN SENIORITY: Those House GOPers Get A Leg Up


Assuming that all current vote leaders are eventually declared the winners, the following represents the Senate seniority ranking of the new class of senators. Seniority between incoming senators is determined by the extent of their prior service, in order, as a Senator, U.S. Vice President, House member, Cabinet Secretary, Governor, and finally state population.

92.) Burr (5 House terms)
93.) DeMint (3 House terms)*
94.) Coburn (3 House terms)*
95.) Thune (3 House terms)*
96.) Isakson (2 House terms + 23 months)
97.) Vitter (2 House terms + 20 months)
98.) Martinez (ex-Cabinet Sec.)
99.) Obama
100.) Salazar
* = Although ties are broken by state population to determine overall Senate seniority, within the GOP conference itself, such ties in seniority are decided by lottery.

[sarasota]

System is still in testing and we're advised not to submit..??

[Always Right]

2) Don't wave a red bandana in front of the media and the RINOs in Pennsylvania by labeling your petition Pro Life. If the PA RINOs tell Specter to fight, he will, and he has a ton of seniority. Better we leave it unlabelled and talk about his failure to vote Clinton out. The rest of us know the real score.

Good point. Not my petition, but fellow freeper cpforlife.org. We need to make the case more savvy with broader appeal.

[Redbob]

We don't need avowedly "pro-life" justices on the Supreme Court: all we need are strict Constitutionalists.

There's nothing about a "right" to abortion in the Constitution, and they will certainly recognize that.

[ArmyBratCutie]

http://www.voicesheard.org/action/vh-11-4-2004.htm?PHPSESSID=d4b30442eac1f3234171c3b442b5d909

sign their petition